16 dead as passenger bus falls off ravine

Deadly ride: Rescuers working to retrieve victims from the damaged passenger bus in a ravine at the mountainous Hamtic town, Antique province. — AP

A passenger bus lost control while negotiating a downhill curve in a central Philippine mountain village and plunged into a deep ravine, killing at least 16 people and injuring 12 others, officials said.

Eight of the wounded in the accident, which happened on Tuesday afternoon in Hamtic town in the province of Antique, were in critical condition at a local hospital, officials said yesterday.